Godard, Benjamin Louis Paul 08/18/1849 - 01/10/1895

From Metzler Musiklexikon 4.0 (Music Encyclopedia in German):
French violinist and composer. He studied with H. Vieuxtemps (violin) and N.H. Reber (composition) at the Paris Conservatoire where he himself taught as a professor commencing in1887. His compositions were extremely popular during his lifetime and are now considered characteristic examples of fin de siècle French salon music. The Berceuse from his opera Jocelyn remains famous to this day